Rib tuberculosis is an extremely rare condition with the incidence not exceeding 3 percent of all skeletal tuberculosis. The authors experienced a recalcitrant case of pulmonary tuberculosis accompanied by chest wall cold abscesses involving ribs recurring at a new site in approximately 10 months despite of medical and surgical treatment. The patient has twice taken thoracotomy for abscess drainage and during the second thoracotomy, a partial resection of involved ribs was performed
Adolescent ; Case Report ; Human ; Male ; Radiography, Thoracic ; Recurrence ; Ribs/pathology/*radiography/radionuclide imaging ; Thoracotomy ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular/pathology/*radiography/radionuclide imaging